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City Gardens, Dublin

The city can be an urban jungle: so sometimes we interpret this very literally. When space is limited and the big wide world is loud, hard and grey, a garden can be a place that's different from all that: in the city more so than ever. Here are some of our city hideaways, where plants are the most important ingredient.

A small courtyard garden off a kitchen: a little sun trap which encourages indoors and outdoors to blend together - weather permitting.

A small woodland garden at the Sean O'Casey Community Centre, right in the heart of the inner city. Despite the urban environment, we recreated an idealised native woodland in a number of small enclosed outdoor atriums.

Three pictures of a small back garden in Dublin 4: the high walls and shelter from houses can provide shelter for some very unusual and showy plants. This garden mixed unusual plants with clean limestone paving and a small area of lawn.